Afia Atakora, author of CONJURE WOMEN (Random House), is featured in a special “Collective Conjuring” chat in a book club Webinar (sign up via Eventbrite) on Sunday, May 3, at 3:00pm (ET).

CONJURE WOMEN, recently named the Barnes & Noble Book Club April Pick, is a sweeping debut novel that brings the world of the South before and after the Civil War vividly to life. Though her extensive research from primary sources including first-person accounts, diaries, autobiographies recounted through amanuenses, and discussions with midwives and doctors, Atakora imbues her book with historical truths—with powerful results.

Atakora has been a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers as well as a nominee for a Pushcart Prize. A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, she also has an MFA from Columbia University where she was a recipient of the De Alba Fellowship.